433 ADDITIONAL NOTES, ETC. 



the plant in Cardigan, and Mr. Motley enumerating it in 

 his Caermarthenshii'e list. 



400. Scleranthus perennis, vol. i. p. 390. 



According to Mr. Purchas and Mr. Westcombe this 

 species has been found on Stanner Rocks, on the borders 

 of Radnor, in South Wales ; an unexpected habitat, from 

 which I should prefer to see a specimen, before positively 

 adding the sixth province to the area. (See Lychnis Vis- 

 caria, page 392, for particulars). In Forfarshire, according 

 to Mr. David Don ; but this alleged habitat has not been 

 verified by Mr. Gardiner, and is too far away from its 

 English area, to be admitted without better (that is, 

 more cautious and exact) testimony than the often very 

 hasty decisions on nomenclatm-e by Mr. David Don ; 

 who was probably quite a young botanist when he sup- 

 posed that he had found S. perennis in Forfarsliii'e. 



403. Ribes nigrum, vol. i. p. 392. 



Provinces (6) and (9) may be added to the area for this 

 species, but only as a natiu'alized plant. Some obsei-va- 

 tions on the reported localities in Essex, by Mr. Varenne, 

 may be seen in the Phytologist, iv. 91 ; the legitimate in- 

 ference from which would seem to be, that the species is 

 only adventitious and uncertain there. The Rev. W. W. 

 Newbould thinks it.may perhaps be indigenous in Holme 

 Fen. On the whole, it must remain for the present much 

 suspected as a native of Britain. If native in any part of 

 our island it is probably very local and scarce in that cha- 

 racter. 



404. Rihes rubrum, vol. i. p. 393. 



Province 6 may be added in the area, on authority of 

 Mr. Motley's Caermarthenshire list. On the authority 

 of Mr. Pascoe's list the south limit may be extended to 

 Cornwall. I stQl doubt this si^ecies being native in the 

 first five or eight provinces of England. 



